Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Connecting lessons to other disciplines
Improvement will help students by:
Allowing them to make more real life connections
Giving them the opportunity to have 2 teachers to compare information with
A possible cooperative/collaborative lesson between 2 classes
Another perspective/teaching style about similar information
Cooperation/Collaboration between teachers make it easier to teach
Allow for extra support amongst teachers
Responsible planning and use of resources
1.1/1.2
2.
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal -
My PD goal for my future endeavors as a teacher is to connect information being taught during my class to other disciplines. By staying in constant contact with other teachers and taking my lesson plans, making sure to connect any possible information that students might find interesting, I can successfully form connections between science and the other disciplines. While many teachers like to stick to the theory of "It's not my job to teach xyz" I believe that making connections can make learning a more fun and interesting experience for the students, especially for students who may not enjoy science as much as they do history, math, english, etc. However, in order to make these connections I need to maintain steady and professional relationships with my colleagues as well as close relationships with my students to know what connections I would have to make in order for them to be FULLY interested (ie - a connection to a match subject would not interest a student who enjoys history).
I believe that when it comes to a school, there should be close collaboration and interdisciplinary activities that go on throughout the year. By keeping information between disciplines intertwined, teachers can talk and collaborate with each other thus giving them an extra support when it comes to their teachers. When teachers are allowed to talk with each other and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their students they can better pinpoint and accommodate each students individual needs. Cooperation amongst teachers also makes it easier for lesson plans and assignments to be created. As the saying goes, "Two heads are better than one." Along with benefiting students, teacher collaboration also benefits the schools as a whole. A school where teachers work together and get a long is ideal and that is exactly what this collaboration fosters. It fosters a sense of community and "oneness" between teachers and disciplines. Working together, sharing responsibilities, and everybody doing their part makes everything get done much faster and easier. When things are done faster and easier, teachers are happier, and when teachers are happier, schools thrive and function much better.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
The first way that I can engage in to help me by the end of my first year of teaching is by participating in Collaborative and Partnership Activities. I believe that the "Applied Studies with Colleagues" can greatly help me in my goal to connect my information and work with other teachers of different disciplines. The applied studies category includes participation in collegial study groups, action research, mentoring and coaching. By focusing on collaborative partnerships and activities in this workshop I can help myself become a better teacher. Learning more about HOW I can relate information to other disciplines along with identifying areas in which I can tie into another lesson will improve my teaching skills, thus hopefully improving how my students learn.
A second way is by attending conferences, workshops, &/or training sessions geared towards collaborative and interdisciplinary lesson planning. A great way for a beginning teacher to learn more (now that school is over) is by attending workshops. Workshops provide a setting for an educator to come together with familiar and unfamiliar faces (other teachers) and work in groups to solve problems and stay on top of the latest studies, practices, and activities. Working with people whom you have never worked with before is a great way to learn new styles and practices and adapt your teaching style in order to benefit your students. Working with other people is also a very good way for myself as a beginning teacher to learn how to better work with others (people who I may not interact with every day of the week). I know that just by being at these types of workshops I am putting my best foot forward in trying to improve my teaching skills but I also want to better myself as a person (not only as a teacher) and its these types of workshops that can help me do just that.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Peer Evaluation
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal -
My PD goal for my future endeavors as a teacher is to connect information being taught during my class to other disciplines. By staying in constant contact with other teachers and taking my lesson plans, making sure to connect any possible information that students might find interesting, I can successfully form connections between science and the other disciplines. While many teachers like to stick to the theory of "It's not my job to teach xyz" I believe that making connections can make learning a more fun and interesting experience for the students, especially for students who may not enjoy science as much as they do history, math, english, etc. However, in order to make these connections I need to maintain steady and professional relationships with my colleagues as well as close relationships with my students to know what connections I would have to make in order for them to be FULLY interested (ie - a connection to a match subject would not interest a student who enjoys history).
I believe that when it comes to a school, there should be close collaboration and interdisciplinary activities that go on throughout the year. By keeping information between disciplines intertwined, teachers can talk and collaborate with each other thus giving them an extra support when it comes to their teachers. When teachers are allowed to talk with each other and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their students they can better pinpoint and accommodate each students individual needs. Cooperation amongst teachers also makes it easier for lesson plans and assignments to be created. As the saying goes, "Two heads are better than one." Along with benefiting students, teacher collaboration also benefits the schools as a whole. A school where teachers work together and get a long is ideal and that is exactly what this collaboration fosters. It fosters a sense of community and "oneness" between teachers and disciplines. Working together, sharing responsibilities, and everybody doing their part makes everything get done much faster and easier. When things are done faster and easier, teachers are happier, and when teachers are happier, schools thrive and function much better.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
The first way that I can engage in to help me by the end of my first year of teaching is by participating in Collaborative and Partnership Activities. I believe that the "Applied Studies with Colleagues" can greatly help me in my goal to connect my information and work with other teachers of different disciplines. The applied studies category includes participation in collegial study groups, action research, mentoring and coaching. By focusing on collaborative partnerships and activities in this workshop I can help myself become a better teacher. Learning more about HOW I can relate information to other disciplines along with identifying areas in which I can tie into another lesson will improve my teaching skills, thus hopefully improving how my students learn.
A second way is by attending conferences, workshops, &/or training sessions geared towards collaborative and interdisciplinary lesson planning. A great way for a beginning teacher to learn more (now that school is over) is by attending workshops. Workshops provide a setting for an educator to come together with familiar and unfamiliar faces (other teachers) and work in groups to solve problems and stay on top of the latest studies, practices, and activities. Working with people whom you have never worked with before is a great way to learn new styles and practices and adapt your teaching style in order to benefit your students. Working with other people is also a very good way for myself as a beginning teacher to learn how to better work with others (people who I may not interact with every day of the week). I know that just by being at these types of workshops I am putting my best foot forward in trying to improve my teaching skills but I also want to better myself as a person (not only as a teacher) and its these types of workshops that can help me do just that.